Center for HR Management
Research
CHRM's research meets two criteria. First the research is academically sound and second, the research is practitioner approved. Below is a list of the current CHRM projects conducted by CHRM researchers.
- On-going research projects
- Research Reports
- Request for Proposals - 2008-09 RFP and deadlines now posted!
On-going research projects
For more information about these projects, please contact the investigators.
The Role of Benefit Choice in Organizational Commitment
Arran Caza: caza@illinois.edu
Uncovering the Factors that Influence Emmployee's Response to Challenging Work-Related Events
Brianna Caza, Lu Wang and Ariel Avgar: bcaza@illinois.edu, luwang1@gmail.com, avgar@illinois.edu
A Multi-level Study of Leadership, Team Process, and Creativity in Teams
Sophia Marinova and Jia Hu: smarinov@uic.edu, jhu9@uic.edu
Managing the Employment Relationship in Different Cultures
Sandy Wayne and Grace Lemmon: sjwayne@uic.edu,gracelemmon@gmail.com
Understanding Job Offer Acceptance Behavior: The Effects of Perceived Embeddedness on Job Choice Behavior
Jenny Hoobler, Smriti Anand: jhoobler@uic.edu, sanand3@uic.edu
Continuous Work Demands, Work-Personal Life Facilitation, and Organizational Commitment
John Lawler, Peng Wang, Shuhong Wang: jjlawler@illinois.edu, pengwang2004@gmail.com, swang30@illinois.edu
Inconsistency in Job Performance: Measurement Error or Something More?
Deborah E. Rupp and Alyssa Mitchell Gibbons: derupp@illinois.edu, amitchll@illinois.edu
Talent Management in the Era of Offshoring: A Social Exchange Model of Turnover in Offshore Employees
Robert Liden and Prajya R. Vidyarthi: bobliden@uic.edu, pvidya2@uic.edu
Cultural Diversity Among Individuals and Across Workgroups: Building High Quality Leader-Subordinate Relationships in Multicultural Organizations
Robert Liden and David Henderson: bobliden@uic.edu, dhende2@uic.edu
How Employees Understand and Respond to Outsourcing: A Sensemaking
Perspective
Sandy Wayne and Anjali Chaudhry: sjwayne@uic.edu, achaud2@uic.edu
Using Technologies to Support and Enhance Organizational Knowledge
Networks
Noshir Contractor and Andrea Hollingshead: nosh@uuc.edu; hollings@illinois.edu
Research Reports
Once research projects are completed, the results are shared with our partner corporations. Below is a list of the CHRM research reports to date. For additional information about CHRM projects, contact CHRM's Associate Director, Jean Drasgow at jdrasgow@illinois.edu or (217) 333-0981.
Employee Stock Options: Their Value to Employees
Craig Olson and Kevin Hallock
2007, #65
Compensation and Reward Systems in a Multicultural Context
Joseph Martocchio, Aparna Joshi, Niti Pandey
2006, #64
Cultural and Institutional Determinants of HR Systems in International Affiliates of American Multinational Corporations
John Lawler, Jongseok Bae, Shyh-jer Chen, Fred Walumbwa, Harish Jain, Pei-Chuan Wu, Peng Wang, Bing Bai and Nguyen Ha
2006, #63
The Successful Employment Relationship: How is it Achieved?
Sandy J. Wayne, Brian C. Glibkowski
2006, #62
Creating Commitment in a Distributed Workforce
Mike Pratt, Kevin Rockmann
2005, #61
Creating a Customer-Focused Culture Through Servant
Leadership
Robert Liden, Hao Zhao, David Henderson
2005, #60
Understanding the Effects of Workplace Diversity: Case
Study of a Knowledge-based Organization
Aparna Joshi, Niti Pandey
2005, #59
Putting the S Back in Corporate Social Responsibility:
A Multi-Level Theory of Social Change in Organizations
Ruth
Aguilera, Deborah Rupp, Cynthia Williams, Jyoti Ganapathi
2004, #58
Behavior and Affect/Emotions Over Time
Charles L. Hulin, Reeshad S. Dalal, Michael R. Bashshur
2004, #57
Work Needs and Motivators of Information Technology
Professionals: A Preliminary Sketch
Ruth V. Aguilera, John C. Dencker, John J. Lawler, Jin Feng Uen
2004, #56
A Longitudinal Person-Environment Fit Approach to Understanding
Retention of IT Workers: Summary of Preliminary Findings
Brent
Roberts, Emily Crawford, Chuah Siang Chee
2004, #55
Toward a "Real Options" Perspective
of Strategic Outsourcing
Ravi Madhavan, Joe Mahoney
2004, #54
What do HR Practices do? A Multi-Method Study of the
Effects of HR Practices on Work Events and Job Outcomes
Teresa
Glomb, Andrew Miner, Chuck Hulin
2004, #53
The Role of Human Resource Management in Cross-Border
Mergers and Acquisitions
Ruth Aguilera, John Dencker
2004, #52
Feedback and Performance Appraisal in the High-Tech
Workworld
Greg Northcraft, Matthew Liao-Troth, Mark Fuller, Elissa Perry
2003, #51
A Descriptive Analysis of Layoffs in Large U.S. Firms
Using Archival and Interview Data: 1970-2002
Kevin Hallock
2003, #50
The Influence of Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience
on Positive Discrepancy Creation in Training
Joe Martocchio, Cindy Wu
2003, #49
Safety Culture and Safety Performance: A Model of the
Managerial Factors Affecting Employee Safety
Scott Siebert, Maria Kraimer, Hao Zhao
2003, #48
Understanding Employee Retention from a Careers Perspective
Maria
Kraimer, Sandy Wayne, Scott Seibert, Robert Liden, Jesus Bravo
2003, #47
Assimilation of Newcomers into the Organization
Robert Liden, Sandy Wayne, Talya Bauer, Berrin Erodgan
2002, #46
Predicting Employee Retention: An Examination of a Retention
Likelihood Scale
Wayne C. Lee, Fritz Drasgow
2001, #45
Achieving Integration in a Diverse Workplace
Bob Liden, Ray Sparrowe, John Maslyn, Monica Gavino, Staci Clark
2001, #44
HRM and the Web: Evolution or Revolution?
Overheads of the Spring 2001 Roundtable
2001, #43
Designing Global Work Teams:
Optimizing The Effects of National
Culture on New Product Development
K. Sivakumar, Cheryl Nakata
2001, #42
Changing Nature of the Employment Relationship
Lynn Shore, Lois Tetrick, Sandy Wayne
2001, #41
Making Employee Network Groups Work
Ray Friedman,
Kellina Craig
2000, #39
Determinant and Consequences of Teamwork: Implications
for U.S. Companies in China
Xiangming Chen, James Bishop, K. Dow Scott
1999, #36
The Effects of Leader Sponsorship and Informal
Networks on Managers’ Influence,
Control of Resources, Turnover Intentions, and Job Performance
Bob
Liden, Raymond Sparrowe
1999, #34
Linking Human Resource Management Practices to Organizational
Attitudes and Behavior Across National Cultures
John Lawler, Joseph Martocchio, Fritz Drasgow, Christopher Robert,
Tahira Probst
1998, #33
The Leadership Skills Assessment: A Multimedia Computerized
Leadership Assessment Can Predict Performance!
Fritz Drasgow, Michelle Donovan, Mindy Bergman
1999, #32
Anger and Aggression in Organizations: Antecedents, Behavioral
Components, and Consequences
Charles Hulin, Theresa Glomb
1999, #31
Expatriates’ Work and Cultural Adjustment. Feedback
Report
Sandy J. Wayne, Maria L. Kraimer, Renata A. Jaworski
1997, #29
Linking Sales Compensation to Firm Performance
Kevin F. Hallock, Paul Oyer
1996, #28
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Training: Feedback
Charles L.
Hulin, Wendy L. Richman
1997, #27
The Empowerment Skills Assessment: The Development of a Computerized
Video Assessment of Empowering Leadership
Fritz Drasgow, Michelle A. Donovan
1997, #25
Effectiveness of Contingent Work Forces – Study
Two: A Comparison Between External and Internal Contingents
Sandy J.
Wayne, Robert C. Liden, Marial L. Kraimer, Raymond T. Sparrow
1997, #24
Effectiveness of Contingent Work Forces – Study
One: A Comparison Between Full-Time Employees and Contingents
Sandy J.
Wayne, Robert C. Liden, Marial L. Kraimer, Raymond T. Sparrow
1997, #23
Can TEAM Work? Implications of an Electromation Compliance Analysis
of CHRM Employers
Michael C. LeRoy
1996, #21
Performance Management in Empowered Work Teams
Robert C. Liden, Sandy J. Wayne, Raymond T. Sparrowe, Maria L.
Kraimer
1996, #20
The Value of Strategic Human Resource Management Practices:
A Longitudinal Study
John J. Lawler, Gloria Harrell-Cook
1996, #18
The Effect of Supervisor and Subordinate Gender on Perceptions
of Angry Supervisors
Theresa Glomb, Charles L. Hulin
1995, #16
The Creative Performance Of Employees in Two Organizations
Greg
R. Oldham
1995, #14
The Effects of Value Incongruity within Organizations: Implications
for Managing Diversity
Harry C. Triandis, M.J. Gelfandl, P. Radhakrishnan, K.M. Kuhn
1994, #12
Empowerment and Effectiveness Study: Feedback Report
Robert C.
Liden, Sandy J. Wayne, Lisa Bradway, Susan Murphy
1994, #10
HRM Business-University Partnerships: Integration of Science
and Practice
Gerald R. Ferris, Darold T. Barnum, Sherman D. Rosen, Lawrence
P. Holleran, James Dulebohn
1994, #8
Empowered Work Groups: Measurement of Leader Behavior and the
Evaluation of Conceptual Model
Sharon Arad, Fritz Drasgow
1994, #7
Reward Systems, Empowerment and Effectiveness Study: Feedback
Report
Sandy J. Wayne, Robert C. Liden, Lisa Bradway, Susan Murphy,
Isabel Graf
1994, #6
COMPAS: Multimedia Computerized Assessment
Fritz Drasgow, Phillip Moberg, Alan Mead, Michael Zickar
1994, #5
Career Success and Career Satisfaction: Feedback Report
Gerald
R. Ferris, Sandy Wayne, Robert Liden, Isabel Graf
1993, #3
Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice: Comparative Study
of Current Diversity Programs
Harry Triandis, Dharm P. S. Bhawuk
1994, #2
Empowerment and Effectiveness: Feedback Report
Robert C. Liden, Sandy J. Wayne, Lisa Bradway, Susan Murphy
1993, #1
Request for Proposals
Each fall and spring CHRM requests applied HR research proposals from University of Illinois faculty. Complete descriptions of these proposals, restrictions, and due dates are included in the Request for Proposals (RFP).
Deadlines
- December 1, 2008 – Due date for brief proposals
- December 15, 2008 – Notification of reactions to brief proposals
- February 2, 2009 – Due date for full proposals
- March 2, 2009 – Notification of acceptance decisions
- June 30, 2009– Determination of proposal funding amounts
CHRM Award Administration Process
Specific benefits and responsibilities associated with CHRM grants are explained in the Award Administration Process. Recipients agree to these terms by signing the Award Acknowledgement Form.